A US national who ingested several pellets of cocaine in his bid to traffic them from Alabama to Saudi Arabia is recovering at Nairobi hospital under police watch.
According to the DCI, the suspect was nabbed after a tip-off from a doctor at a hospital in Nairobi.
Detectives also revealed that the suspect had on Sunday, February 16, been taken to the hospital by his friend and was admitted for examination after exhibiting symptoms of excessive drugging.
Jarod Tyler Roberts a US national arrested in bid to traffic cocaine. Photo: Courtesy.
Moments after being admitted, the doctor promptly alerted anti-narcotics detectives from DCI Headquarters who visited the facility to witness an endoscopy process on the suspect.
Three pellets were recovered from the suspect’s rectum which turned out to be cocaine weighing 57.98 grams.
The DCI officers took the pellets and documented the incident.
Detectives have moreover established that the American national temporarily resided at a short-stay apartment in Nairobi’s Westlands area.
He was due to board Ethiopian Airlines at around 6 pm yesterday when he was suddenly taken ill.
According to the officers, the suspect was to travel to Saudi Arabia through Addis Ababa.
